Kiva Koffeehouse

The Kiva Koffeehouse is a restaurant and inn located in the Canyons of the Escalante within the convert|1900000|acre|km2 of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in the United States.

Its kiva-styled building,cite web |url= http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695214158,00.html |title= Kiva Koffeehouse: Family-run business offers cool retreat in S. Utah |author= Lucinda Dillon Kinkead |work= Deseret Morning News |date= 29 September 2007 |quote= Photographs by Kristin Nichols.] which has been compared to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West,cite web |url= http://www.yelp.com/biz/t96noSLfykxRQXmoYTYxwA |title= Review for Kiva Koffeehouse |work= Yelp |date= 26 July 2007 |quote= Rounding a bend in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, all you'll see is a rusty sign on a gravel driveway declaring Kiva Koffeehouse's presence.… Spectacular canyonside perch and an atmosphere reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West years. ] was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite. Bowman's materials for the structure, which he began in 1990 and completed in 1998, feature logs from the high forests of the western United States and sandstone from a quarry on family-owned property nearby.

The area is popular with "plein air" painters, and the Kiva is a regular feature of the annual Escalante Canyons Art Festival's Everett Ruess Days. The painting which won Best of Show in the oil/acrylics category at the 2006 Everett Ruess Days was painted from Kiva's porch in heavy rain. What painting?cite web |url= http://www.everettruessdays.org/ |title= Escalante Canyons Art Festival |work= Everett Ruess Days website |quote= ] The Kiva also supports the festival with gifts in kindcite web |url= http://www.groupsrv.com/hobby/about50287.html |title= Everett Ruess Days Announcement |work= Hobby Forum |date= 16 August 2004 |quote= ] and has hosted festival poetry slams [http://www.everettruessdays.org/archive04.html First Annual Everett Ruess Days, 2004] Escalante Canyons Art Festival.] with performers such as Alex Caldiero.cite web |url= http://haroldcarr.org/photos/2004/10/2004-10-02-AlexCaldieroAtKivaKoffeehouse/2004-10-02-AlexCaldieroAtKivaKoffeehouse.html |title= Alex Caldiero At Kiva Koffeehouse |author= Harold Carr |work= Photographs from the Everett Ruess Days poetry slam |date= 2 October 2004 |quote= ]

Since Bradshaw Bowman's death on Christmas Eve in 2000, the Kiva Koffeehouse has been operated by his daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughters. Bowman's daughter said when interviewed by the "Deseret Morning News" that it is "exactly what her father envisioned: a cool spot for road-weary travelers in which to take respite from the brutal stretch of Highway 12 between Boulder and Escalante."

The Kiva Koffeehouse, with a kitchen featuring the regional cuisine of the Southwestern United States, is open seasonally every year from April through October.

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* [http://www.kivakoffeehouse.com/ Official website of the Kiva Koffeehouse.]